This isn't really one story, but fifteen different stories, poems and jokes in one book, all about Jack and the Beanstalk. All the stories are by different people, and all with different pictures, but they all have beans in them, and one even has Mexican beans! Some of the stories are very easy to read. Some are a bit harder. All of them are quite interesting and some are funny too.

My favourite story was by one of my favourite writers, Francesca Simon who wrote Horrid Henry, and it's called Yum. It's about what happens after Jack's mum throws the beans out of the window. In the morning Jack is very hungry and although he hates beans, he is so hungry that he decides to go out into the garden to find the beans and eat them up. He finds a red bean and it tastes exactly like chocolate ice cream and whipped cream. It is so delicious that he crawls around the garden eating more beans until his mother looks out of the window and asks what he is doing. He tells her that the beans are magic and that every time he makes a wish it comes true, one bean even tastes like roast chicken when he wishes that. Another tastes like apple and pear tart. His mother tells him not to eat them all and they end up making a wish for all the wishes in the world!

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